Newent Camera Club hosted the annual inter-club 'battle' between Newent, Forest of Dean and Stroud last night with Aleks Gjika judging 10 prints and 10 digitally projected images from each club. Round 1 saw the prints being judged with some very impressive images from all three clubs, but the Forest of Dean Camera Club had the strongest set of images overall and held an impressive 5 point lead at the half-way point with Stroud trailing by 8 points in 3rd place. After a short break, judging of the digitally projected images started with some early high scorers for Stroud giving us some hope that we might be back in the 'battle'. Twenty points for 'Guardian of the Galaxy' (Leslie Holmes) was SCC's top image of the evening with three other images only just missing out on top points. Could SCC dare to dream of pulling off the grest come-back since Liverpool's defeat of AC Milan in 2005? With all hanging on the last image (Brian Johns' 'Waxing Gibbous Moon'), we needed a very respectable score of 17 to tie. After an agonising critique, Aleks awarded a score of 19 securing our two-from-two battles win of the season.
Our final battle will be hosted by Cirencester Camera Club along with Cheltenham Camera Club on 3 Apr.
Roger